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Bonus Round 1: Quotes
Bonus Round 1: Quotes
SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).
PLAY BALL! For this round, we'd like you to take inspiration from songs, sayings, poems, and other kinds of famous words.
Because this is our first full round, please read this post carefully before proceeding!
This round ends at 7PM on June 13 EDT. Countdown Timer.
RULES
- Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
- Example: "Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here!" -Kermit the Frog
- The quote can come from anywhere. Famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, your neighbor, etc.
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Yachi & Kiyoko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Yachi/Kiyoko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.Required Work Minimums:
- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art)
- 14 lines (poetry)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
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FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
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Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.
SCORING
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:
First 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each
All scored content must be created new for this round.
Etc.
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only.Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/IZUMIDA TOUICHIROU
"Do you think a city is complicated enough that we can say it has a sort of intelligence? No, I don't care where you work. No, YOU are the worst speed date here." - A Softer World 460
FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO, T
Word Count: 749
"Do you think a mountain can feel it?" the person across from Miki asks. "When we carve roads into it?"
For a moment, Miki simply stares at them, lips slightly parted in perplexity. Every other boy who'd come past her to that point had begun in the same exact way – hi, my name is so and so, my age is such and such, and I work in yet another incredibly boring field you have no interest in. So what do you do?
She can't say for certain that she likes it, but at least the latest of her speed dates has a different sort of flair.
They're staring at her, gaze a little vague, like they're focusing it very intently on something just past her face and which she wouldn't be able to see, even if she turned to try and catch a glimpse of it. That's how they were when they sat down, too – slow, almost leisurely, like they weren't thinking about what they were doing. Like their body isn't the important thing in the equation at all, and sometimes they forget to fully take stock of it.
"I've never thought about it," Miki says, on a bit of a delay.
"I think about it a lot," her date replies, their eyes brightening as they warm to their subject. "Mountains know a lot of things, far more than we give them credit for. But after so many people have walked across their faces, how could they not?"
Miki is once again thrown for a loop.
She's very aware that they only have five minutes, and that her companion is rapidly eating through their time without communicating anything about themself. But she's also becoming aware that unlike with every robotic, over-prepared boy who came before them, she's actually curious what she might find out, if they only gave her some solid answers.
"What do you do?" Miki asks, ignoring the question she'd been pitched.
They stare at her for a long moment, like maybe they hadn't understood the question at all, before finally saying, "I bike."
"Professionally?" Miki asks, her eyes immediately lighting up. "What frame do you ride? My family owns a bike shop and I've been riding since I was young, though... Not in any races like my brother always used to do."
Her excitement dies back down as quickly as it came, when she admits that she's not a racer herself. Something bitter and acrid rises up against the back of her throat but she swallows it down, pushing a smile to again spread across her face.
Her date appears to have taken absolutely zero notice. "Is that really important? It's the same bike I've been riding since middle school – ah, a Look frame." They smile for a moment, with the fondness of someone looking back on a pleasant memory. "We've climbed a lot of hills together."
"You're a climber, then," Miki says, seizing upon the resumed opportunity to talk about racing. "I was never as good with climbs as with flats. But – I know someone who is incredibly talented in that way – a couple someones, actually. I always... Loved to watch their biking."
"I wonder if I've ever raced them," her date says. "Since you were talking about racing. Would you like to race sometime, onee-chan?"
Miki is momentarily thrown – again – by what they've chosen to call her. But then it sinks in that they're asking her about racing, with bikes, and absolute delight blossoms across her face like the sun coming out.
"I'd love t—" she starts to say, before the sound of a buzzer interrupts her.
"Gentlemen," a slow, bored voice cuts into the conversation, into all of the conversations happening around them which Miki hadn't noticed she was blocking out until that very moment, "If you would move to the next table."
"Wait!" Miki calls out, as her date begins to stand and move on to their next position. "You're the worst speed date here, I didn't even get your name!"
But even as the orchestrator shushes her and the next of her allotted paramours seats himself at her table, she takes a very decisive peek at the number of her mountain child, and makes a note to submit a request for a date with them at the end of the round – if not for drinks or coffee, then for a hard ride, to the top of whatever peak they want to pick out.
Re: FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO, T
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Fandom secret, I am far more interested in (and comfy with) writing other characters observing Manami than writing Manami themself. Miki in particular was fun to do for that, I love her a lot. ;u;